41-16 47th Street
also 41-16A 47th Street | Sunnyside | built 1924
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1924
41-16 47th Street rises in 1924 among the pitched-roof middle houses of a Colonial Court row
No. 41-16 belongs to a row of seven two-story houses at 41-02 to 41-18 47th Street, completed in 1924 as part of Sunnyside Gardens' Colonial Court. The five middle houses, including this one, have slate-covered pitched roofs with eaves to the street and a brick chimney rising above each peak, while the two end houses are flat-roofed and set back. Front yards were laid out as two lawns flanking a path of broken blue or red stone.
“The center five buildings have slate shingled, eaves front, pitched roofs with brick chimneys extending above the peak at every building.”
- 1940
Tax photos from about 1940 show the open porch sections of 41-16 47th Street's house type unenclosed
The 2007 designation report pictures 41-16 as an example of a four-bay house type with two front doors, one for the upper apartment and one for the lower. The doors sit under a metal shed roof with a cross gable that each house shares with its mirror-image neighbor. According to the report, Tax Department photos taken around 1940 show no enclosures on the open, shed-roofed parts of these porches.
“The c.1940 Tax Department photos do not show any historic enclosures at the open, shed roof portions of the porches.”
- 2007
Surveyors find 41-16 47th Street keeping its historic wood-sided porch
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The 2007 landmark survey found that 41-16 kept the original arrangement of its porch, with historic wood siding on the enclosed part. The open part had a non-historic wood column and metal railing, and its shed roof had been tarred. Other changes included a new basement door, aluminum one-over-one windows, wires and conduit on the facade, and extra pavers in the front yard.
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